As an introduction to the hymn in which Paul describes Christ rsquo s self- emptying he pleads with the Philippians to change their minds that is not to shift positions on a particular issue but to alter transform and recondition the way in which they relate to one another If then there is an

New York Sept 23 2011 America Press Inc the Jesuit-sponsored magazine and web site today announced the appointment of Father John P Schlegel S J as publisher and president Father Schlegel who recently completed 11 years as president of Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska will assume

While Congress began another round of government by brinkmanship and self-inflicted wound I stumbled upon a couple of maps of the United States today that offer a depressing update not on the nation s highway system perhaps on the American dream The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities digs a

The famous mdash or notorious mdash ldquo Ground Zero Mosque rdquo a proposed Islamic community center two blocks from the former site of the Word Trade Center which so terrified some Manhattanites months ago opened last Wednesday night with no fire bombings or pickets In only a few paragraphs

Charles Sumner was a man of vision The senator from Massachusetts knew that slavery was wrong He devoted his fiery oratory to denouncing the profound evil it represented but Charles Sumner lacked a virtue I would call suppleness What is that It rsquo s a combination of the classical virtues It

Tomorrow around the world in 168 countries and around the United States myriad events will celebrate a mobilization for addressing global warming around the slogan of a moving planet Sponsored by 350 org the mobilization and its events call for marches bicycle tours green fairs clean ups tr

Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly took some heat this week from Peter Finney writing in New Orleans archdiocesan paper the Clarion Herald where he serves as Executive Editor During a couple of frustrating losses this season you didn t need to be a lip-reader to figure out what Kelly was we

Just posted to our Web site David Hollenbach S J on what South Sudan can learn from Catholic teaching as it struggles to set a course for the future The Catholic community in South Sudan especially shares the responsibility to help shape the life of the new country Catholics are a sizable part

One of the more interesting aspects of the recent GOP presidential debates has been the astounding exhortation of extreme individualism the notion that every person is in it for him or herself and that government should not provide any sort of safety net or assistance to those in need there i

The Washington Post reports on the recently freed Americans who were being held in an Iranian prison accused of spying during a hiking trip when they accidentally crossed into Iranian territory Cardinal Theodore McCarrick the retired archbishop of Washington DC played a role in the talks Bef

Anthony Ruff OSB at PrayTell has an analysis of Bishop Olmsted s decision to restrict the reception nbsp among laypeople of wine the Precious Blood at Communion nbsp The diocese is admitting that the bishop nbsp could have nbsp allowed priests to continue giving Communion under both forms at

Last week by a vote of 238 to 186 the US House voted to strip the National Labor Relations Board of one of its powers ndash the power to stop companies from transferring work to punish workers who organize a union or strike their employer nbsp HR 2587 known to sponsors as the lsquo Protecti

Catholics academics professionals and pastoral workers were among the speakers at a recent Fordham University conference which sought according to the program to ldquo raise awareness and generate informed conversation about sexual diversity issues within the community of faith and in the broad

Deacon Tom Cornell a longtime friend of the magazine and a member of the Catholic Worker sends this homily from from St Mary rsquo s Church in Marlboro N Y He preached on September 18 the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Today rsquo s Gospel reading is not a recommendation for the reform of labo

Just as interesting as nbsp Andrew J Garavel s nbsp review of the new play Temporal Powers is the story of its recovery and the unfairly forgotten Irish playwright Teresa Deevy nbsp Fr Garavel a Jesuit priest and assistant professor of English at Santa Clara is also something of a special

Previously on this blog I have written about the Common English Bible translation and the Conservative Bible Project though I have not connected the two in nbsp any way At the Better Bibles Blog which is dedicated to improving Bible translations Wayne Leman has written about claims that the Comm

Just posted to our Web site Maryann Cusimano Love remembers 9 11 when her weekly class at the Pentagon was interrupted by the terrorist attack On Tuesday September 11 2001 I set out to teach class in the Pentagon like I did every week Our class that semester was about emerging security threa

On Sept 16 Fordham University held a conference entitled Learning to Listen Voices of Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church Deb Word a panel speaker and member of Fortunate Families shared her experience of raising her son who is gay Kerry Weber Note This post and video have

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp One of the highlights of my past summer was attending a block-buster exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The Steins Collect One is simply amazed at the vast array of Cesanne s Renoir s Gauguin s Matisse s and Picasso s in the exhibition The Stein